Psychology and neuroscience provide intriguing answers.

At the end of most school days, groups of Global Learning Academy students work with volunteers to improve their reading skills. One group of five or so students is listening to, reading with or ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

Fun fact: Reading about someone else actually activates "mirror neurons," circuits in our neurological system that may cause ...

IN an era dominated by digital media and rapidly advancing technology, reading printed books is increasingly viewed as a ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...